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Operators May Earn and Sell Carbon Credits for the P&A of Inactive, Shut-in, or Temporarily Abandoned Wells

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The ACR methodology defines eligible abandoned wells to include: (1) unplugged wells with a spud date prior to 1950, which are eligible because they predate standardized regulations for P&A, and (2) unplugged wells with a spud date of 1950 or later and having no production for six consecutive months. million vehicles per year.

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Louisiana Second Circuit Addresses: (1) Creation of Mineral Servitudes Via Notarial Acts of Correction; (2) Obstacles Suspending the Prescription of Nonuse from Running Against Mineral Servitudes; and (3) Payment of Court Costs in Concursus Actions

The Energy Law

In Petro-Chem Operating Co., Flat River Farms, L.L.C. , the Louisiana Second Circuit addressed issues affecting the creation and preservation of mineral servitudes and payment of court costs in a concursus action. [1] 8] However, these agreements did not contain language providing for a mineral reservation to the tract’s original owner. [9]

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